This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Wednesday 8 February 1984 |
Time: | overnight |
Type: | Lancashire Aircraft Co EP-9 |
Owner/operator: | Strutbest Ltd |
Registration: | G-APWZ |
MSN: | 42 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Goodwood Airfield, Chichester, West Sussex -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Goodwood Aerodrome (QUG/EGHR) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:c/no 42: Lancashire Prospector 1. Built at by Lancashire Aircraft at Squires Gate, Blackpool. Registered (C of R R.6732/1) to Lancashire Aircraft Co Ltd as G-APWZ, 5.11.59. First flown 23.2.60. CofA issued 22.4.60. 295 hp Lycoming and 3-blade propeller fitted. Hanover Air Show exhibit 1960. Later - from 21.12.64 - based at Lympne. Ashford, Kent
Re-registered (C of R R 6732/2) to Strutbest Ltd, t/a Sussex Agricultural Aviation Services, 17.8.77. Operated by Crop Culture (Sudan) Ltd.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when blown over and severely damaged by high winds, when parked at Goodwood, Chichester, Sussex overnight on the night of 7-8.2.84.
Registration G-APWZ cancelled 1.10.84 as "PWFU" ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use")
Remains to Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop 6.84 for possible spares/rebuild. However, this airframe was rebuilt, by 5.5.2001: In 2003 it was imported to New Zealand by Kairanga Aviation Ltd, becoming ZK-PWZ (c/no. 42 – ex G-APWZ). As ZK-PWZ, this airframe is now only one of the last three remaining airworthy EP-9s in existence
Sources:
1. The British Civil Arcraft Register G-APA to G-APZZ (Bernard Martin, Air Britain. 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File DR 26/30:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C295987 3.https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-APWZ.pdf
4.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1992.pdf 5.
https://aeropedia.com.au/content/percival-ep-9/ 6.
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/24575/G-APWZ 7.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/8560972994 [G-APWZ photo at Shoreham, 1982]
8.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Aircraft_Corporation#Lancashire_Aircraft_Company 9. As ZK-AWZ:
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9512726 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester/Goodwood_Airport Media:
EP-9 G-APWZ on 5.5.2001
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Oct-2022 21:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
19-Oct-2022 21:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category] |
19-Oct-2022 22:55 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |